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Title Trustee for the human community : Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the decolonization of Africa / edited by Robert A. Hill and Edmond J. Keller
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2010
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 205 pages)
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Contents Ralph Bunche : African American intellectual / Martin Kilson -- Ralph Bunche and the dawn of Africanist scholarship / David Anthony -- The making of an Africanist : Ralph Bunche in South Africa, 1937 / Robert Edgar -- Ralph Bunche and the decolonization of African studies : the paradox of power, morality, and scholarship / Elliott P. Skinner -- Ralph Bunche the Africanist : revisiting paradigms lost / Pearl T. Robinson -- Decolonization through trusteeship : the legacy of Ralph Bunche / Neta C. Crawford -- An unexpected challenge : Ralph Bunche as field commander in the Congo, 1960 / John Olver -- Ralph Bunche and Patrice Lumumba : the fatal encounter / Crawford Young -- Ralph Bunche, Patrice Lumumba, and the first Congo crisis / Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja -- Africa in the global decolonization process : the road to postcoloniality / Ralph A. Austen -- Epilogue / Charles P. Henry
Summary Ralph J. Bunche (1904-1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. In this position, Bunche played a key role in setting up the trusteeship system that provided important impetus for postwar decolonization ending European control of Africa as well as an international framework for the oversight of the decolonization process after the Second World War. Trustee for the Human Community is the first volum
Analysis "This is a project of the UCLA Globalization Research Center--Africa"--T.p. verso
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"This is a project of the UCLA Globalization Research Center--Africa"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971.
SUBJECT Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971 fast
Subject United Nations -- Officials and employees -- Biography
SUBJECT United Nations fast
Subject African Americans -- Biography
Africanists -- United States -- Biography
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
Decolonization -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
LAW -- International.
HISTORY -- General.
African Americans
Africanists
Decolonization
Employees
Nobel Prize winners
Statesmen
SUBJECT Africa -- History -- 1884-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001563
Subject Africa
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Keller, Edmond J. (Edmond Joseph), 1942- editor.
Hill, Robert A., 1943- editor.
UCLA Globalization Research Center--Africa.
LC no. 2010001184
ISBN 9780821443446
0821443445
0821419102
9780821419106